From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-08-02T00:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout errors using Net::HTTP on Windows

On Aug 1, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Roger Pack wrote:

>> For posterity: as described and discussed here:
>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/229801
>> it turns out that threads and I/O don't mix in the One-Click  
>> Installer
>> at this time. Neither, apparently, do they mix in the MinGW builds...
>
> I don't think this was the root cause, however--the problem described
> here is that if you have nested timeout's
> Timeout.timeout(x) {
>  begin
>    Timeout.timeout(y) { stuff }
>  rescue Timeout::Error
>    # which timeout will cause this to trigger?
>  end
> }
>
> The outermost timeout could timeout the inner one, causing the inner  
> one
> to think it was "timed out" when it wasn't--the outer one was.

For information about how to correctly nest timeout() calls, please see:

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/04/11/care-and-feeding-of-timeout-timeout

James Edward Gray II